Millionth Day 1

Day 1
Phase ratings:
Core 5
Nap I 4
Nap II 4
Nap III 4
Nap IV 5

Average 4.4

Total sleep 5h 50 min
Total REM 1h 45 min
Total Deep 50 min

I had to estimate some numbers from my core, as my band slipped off before I woke up and put it back on. It has been doing that a lot lately, which tells me that I've tossed and turned more. Also perhaps it has gotten a bit loose, I should tighten it up. I feel great after the core, but you gotta remember that I've been literally oversleeping lately. Basically I've had both mono- and polyphasic tendensies. The "nap" lenght has been monophasic, but I've still felt like going back to bed with only few hours in between. I know I can't adapt back to monophasic and I don't even want to. So even a schedule that has low return in terms of hours gained is fine for me at the moment.

SmartWake didn't wake me, it went off something like 20 seconds after I had woken up. I doubt it will wake my many times during this, but I also hope that somewhere under 3h 40 mins would naturally be enough for me. Also hopefully that time is easier for me to wake up to alarm.

I missed the first nap but overslept quite nicely for the second nap. Nothing drastic but I just kept pushing it until it finally happened. It's the standard, all the mistakes possible - streching the naptime after not properly falling asleep, staying bed with only one alarm set, snoozing endlessly, etc. I spent nearly 2 hours in bed, but the exact stats were 1h 25 mins of sleep and 40 minutes of REM. I had a weird dream as well, though not a nightmare. Still, nothing too bad. Third nap overslept again, almost the same time, 1h 20 mins. So, yeah... I guess this data can be used as a baseline, or what I should aim once I get my numbers right. I'd really need another person at the moment to my corner, of course summoning the required discipline myself is a preferable alternative, but I just can't seem to do it at the moment. I missed the fourth nap as well, but that's little wonder after three cores.

I'll start also updating more regularly and throughoutly. Not because I think it holds really any value to you guys, but mostly because it helps me focus and gets me to correct mindset. It's impossible to succeed in polyphasic sleep if you're taking it half-assed. Well, it's impossible to succeed in anything that way, but now I'm getting too philosophical...

Frankly I don't think it really matters too much how many hours I gain. I've gotten used to going to sleep every few hours and that is the effect I can't and don't even want to get rid of.

I'm a Mess

I guess I have to finally admit it. I've slided back into monophasic schedule instead of starting any kind of nap system.

I'll have a one final try to restart my Everyman with slight changes. I'll try to utilize the SmartWake function of Zeo and use a core of 3h - 3h 40 min, depending on when it wakes me. Basically this means that I'll go to sleep about 40 minutes earlier. I wasn't very productive with that time anyway.

Core 2.20-6 Smartwake
Nap 1 8-8.20
Nap 2 11.40-12
Nap 3 16.40-17
Nap 4 22-22.20
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Total sleep 5h

Of course given that this is Everyman and the fact that I've added more time to the core and one extra nap means that I have some flexibility with the nap times. But we'll see if I can even wake up to alarms once again.

I'm also mantaining that I am planning to go for Uberman next summer. If I manage to adapt to this permanently, maybe it can help with that adaptation as well.

Another Heavy Oversleep

This is becoming redundant. I slept pretty much full night, except that it was rather day. But yeah... I'll increase the volume of my computer alarm, hide my cellphone further away and put my Zeo under my computer desk. Also I stopped adding minutes for my naps, that's a stupid mistake I already rid myself once but for some reason thought it was reasonable this time. That should be enough to get me on the right track again. Or not. We'll see.

Just Randomly Oversleeping

Yeah, my schedule is all over the place at the moment. I just have struggled to summon the willpower needed to avoid oversleeping. I've been lazy and there has been lot of personal matters that have distracted me. Also like I've said, it's pretty hard to adapt to non-core programs during the winter as it's so cold that getting up sucks.

I hope I can start finally succeeding tomorrow. I should just try to follow some kind of schedule. Now I just do random stuff at random times and as usual that just doesn't work for me.

Day 2 of... Experimenting

Another quick update. During the small hours of the night it occured to me that I might make my schedule match more my Everyman. So I ended up adding one extra nap and changing naptimes just a bit. My new schedule reads:
2:00-2:20
5:40-6:00 - Waking up at 6:00, like I would with core.
8:10-8:30 - Same naptime as for my first nap with Everyman.
11:40-12:00 - Same naptime as for my second nap with Everyman.
15:00-15:20
18:40-19:00
22:20-22:40

We'll see how it works. I'm not really treating this as Uberman attempt anymore, it's more of just experimenting.

Well it went well for some time, but my 18.40 nap saw four hour oversleep. It's still better than sleeping all night, but that oversleep actually did frustrate me a bit. I guess I need to kick the alarms up - I haven't used my computer's alarm yet pretty much at all, trusting that I wake up to lesser alarms while only napping.

Day 1 of Another Uberman

Well just a quick update, I'll edit this to summarize the whole of day one later. But just approaching my third nap and I'm struggling to stay awake. So I decided to use one method I developed while on Everyman - picking up glass full of liquid. It worked like a treat, my lap is now all nice and wet with milk. At least I didn't fall asleep.

Alright here's the first day's update - most of naps went as planned, I missed one and overslept on one. I'm not too concerned about it yet as I'm just easing myself into this. I've felt excellent the whole day except prior the oversleep, which by the way lasted four hours. Tomorrow I'll crank the discipline a bit up and hopefully start stringing succesful naps together.

That said, now that I did oversleep after all, I feel a little bad that I poured milk over myself. That kind of got wasted now that I let myself go anyway. But I'll improve it tomorrow.

ZQ Record

Well it didn't go as planned. I slept through all of my alarms with such a ridiculous ease that I in fact made my record ZQ. Over 9 hours of sleep with over 4 hours (!!!) of REM - ZQ was a nice and solid 106.

I thought at first that I'll have a few days break going monophasic but looking at those stats, that indicate a lower light-sleep percentage than a month ago, made me realize that it might get worse and I won't be wanting that. However, it is clear that I'm simply not waking up to my alarms. Not at least on my core sleep. Then it came to me, an easy conclusion - get rid of the core! I've woken up to my alarms so far on my naps every time, so I'll just return to Uberman and get myself retrained to getting up instantly. Here's my new nap schedule:
6:00-6:20
10:00-10:20
14:00-14:20
18:00-18:20
22:00-22:20
2:00-2:20

I'd hope to string at least 12 naps together (obviously adapting to Uberman would be awesome, but I'm not really expecting it - just using it as a tool to get going again) and get back to my napping groove. I might give myself more chances than just one oversleep, but we'll see. Once I decide to go back to Everyman I'll probably figure out some more hardcore ways to get up as well, because I don't expect the core to being troublefree anyway.

Event

Yeah, so the "event" ended and it fucked the rest up if there wasn't anything to fuck up anymore. I guess I could treat tomorrow as new day one. Just makes it simpler to keep up with the streak, if I even notch another one up.

Mistakes caused by the "event":
- Missed nap on Friday.
- Supershort nap on Friday.
- Only 2½ core on Saturday.
- 2 hour oversleep on Saturday.
- Core hour late on Sunday.
- 6 hour oversleep on Sunday.

So... Yeah. Messed up stuff. Restart tomorrow with clean records.

I don't know about updating this so regularly, I mean it's getting redundant. Maybe I'll post like once in a week if there's anything to update.

Day 30

Core
Rating: 4
I woke up from the core and definitely the dynamics of my sleep have changed since the errorfree days, but I hope my brains can quickly switch back, otherwise I might have trouble coming up. My schedule is also about half an hour late so I'll take Naps 1 & 2 a bit late. Nap 2 will be the last thing I report before Sunday.

Naps 1 & 2
Ratings: 4 & Pending (probably 5)

I cheated a bit again on my rules. I stayed on bed after the alarms, but there was little danger of me falling asleep. During the second nap I laid down for full 30 minutes after waking up because my cat protested loudly to me trying to get up.

These are the last updates that will come to the blog until Sunday. See ya.

Day 29 - Third Fuck-up in A Row

Well okay now I really need to figure out a solution to my core oversleeping. Again slept for 7 hours and I'm probably getting back used to monophasic, if not ruined everything already. I seem not able to string two days together. I mean if I could do some days properly again I'd probably see the extent of the damage, but at the moment that looks impossible.

It didn't look too bad in the morning when I woke up, realizing I've overslept 4,5 hours. "Okay", I thought "well it was just a 4,5 hour core. Some people use that as their schedule and it's okay sometimes". But then my tired mind messed up and decided to have the first nap right at that instant, since it was time for that. That was a mistake, I shouldn't go to bed so close to previous nap.

But basically, yeah, I slept through my alarms twice, or I don't know, maybe I woke up but just didn't get up. I don't remember. I had the phone as a back-up that was supposed to go off 6:20, but I guess even that didn't move me.

I just need to stop the cycle probably. I'll check the data.

Looks very normal, monophasic stats. I guess the proportiong of useful sleep is slightly up, but very slightly about one or two percent. I don't know what they should be, probably monophasic sleep would still be similar even after long spell of polyphasic. I had woken up during the original alarm, probably to my computers alarm. But the second alarm, I had no data of being wake there, so I suppose I slept right through it. Now that I can set Zeo off asleep it's as useless as any other alarm. I don't know, I guess I need the whole set - more alarms (and more effective ones) and better rutine for waking up from core. By that I mean what stuff I do right on the alarm.

I am understandably very frustrated. This fucked up everything for the day as well, there was stuff I had planned to do.

Oh wait, I remember morning - or not exactly, but I remember how I woke up. My alarm song had gone for some time, as it always starts with a calm part, but it was blasting away already at the point I woke up so I must've struggled to get up. But after that I still don't remember what happened. I probably didn't think straight.

I just noticed 26th day is missing. I wonder what's up with that? I probably just forgot to post, as my spreadsheet shows normal data.

But yeah I need to figure out more alarms so I have more to shut down. An increase the difficulty of the current ones. The first step is to simply make up I stay awake. If I have long project of shutting down the alarms, well perhaps that in itself shakes me then up enought that I don't feel like going back to bed.

That said, there' only one normal night anymore. That event I've been talking about starts in friday. I will sleep tomorrow night normally, but after that it's shift to foreing environment. I can't really have loud alarms as well because there's other people and it would be ankwatd to wake them up at 6 am. Luckily Zeo is very calm alarm - a little too call even for me.

But basically I was sounding desperate at the start of this post and I probably was, but I was just making a meal of the situation now that I've reflected through it. I mean it fuckin' sucks that I overslept and I've probably ruined everything (always expecting the worst), but it's really not a hard problem to solve. Core being the problem saves a lot of hassle as well, I don't need to use million alarms on other naps.

Day 28... Not Adhering Perfectly Yet

So basically this is the deal at the moment - I completely fucked up everything last night, but only slightly in terms of Everyman. I didn't go to sleep on time for the core. So when I finally went to sleep, I decided that fuck it, I'm going to put the alarm for the normal waking time. I went to bed 90 minutes from the alarm time, but was not tired. So in the end I tossed around for 30 minutes before falling asleep.

I know what you're expecting. I overslept, right? Wrong. I got up after 62 minutes of sleep (according to Zeo) and felt pretty good straight away. Actually that's my best core awakening in a while. Weird. Anyway, I'm not counting this day as perfect yet. But at least I don't have to fuck around with my sleeping times.

Speaking of them, perhaps I still should. Those times that I have work perfectly, but I'm just wondering whether the phases should be more even. I'm just worrying about adaptation, nothing else. Perhaps that's nothing. I mean the fourth nap should make sure that I'm getting enough everything, regardless of how naps are spaced. My shortest phase is 2 hours of wake-time and longest is 5 hours of wake-time, so neither sound anything outrageous. I can't move the last nap any closer to core so that really limits how much I could change the schedule. But I guess I keep it. I am already enjoying the predictabilities of it, mostly the certain-REM noon nap. I would love to make that a WILD nap.

In terms of lucid dreaming I still very much struggle. I had decent dream recall last month, but for some reason there has been no trace of it during December. I hope it improves. But getting up for alarms all the time with great hurry kind of doesn't fit with that. But enough reflection, I need to get back doing other stuff. See ya tomorrow with normal updates... I hope.

Day 27

After a perfect day I oversleep heavily - I'm starting to succumb right back into old habits. For some reason I didn't get up in the morning, I sort of remember waking up from the core but just staying in bed. I guess I should've at least set alarm to wake a little later. 10 minute oversleep would've been much more acceptable than 7 hour sleep.

That's really all I need to say today. I'll return tomorrow. Of course I'll try to hit the naps today as well.

Day 25

Core
Phase rating: 3

Well that was probably the best core sleep so far. Changing my alarm order and rhythm worked as I was up from my bed at 6:03 without the usual "10 minutes in the bed until computer's alarm goes off" -routine. I also have felt quite good during the phase after the initial groggyness wore off. I mean, for a core sleep. There was only 55 min of deep sleep, but humongous 50-minute junk of REM at the end of my sleep more than makes up for that. It was all in a row. Looks awesome on my Zeo.

Nap 1
Phase rating: 2

I feel fine now, but I was pretty close to falling asleep earlier. That said I probably wouldn't have as I picked up a glass (double points for it having liquid inside) when I started feeling drowsy. If If I'd fallen asleep I'd gotten an apt punishment, a wet surprise. I cheated a bit here - I picked up the blanket after all to ease my coldness and I did stay for 3-4 minutes in the bed waiting for my computer alarm. I guess I should still have it closer to my normal alarm. It might as well be my main alarm as it's the only one that actually gets me properly up. I'm going to keep my current arrangement though. The nap itself was basic light sleep failure of a nap. I had 5 minutes of REM in the end of it, but that's pretty worthless. I guess the next nap has been the most consistently REM-including, so hope that is the case now as well.

Nap 2
Phase rating: 1

Well the streak won't start today. I dozed off for five minutes while watching football and while I could let that go, I'm not going to as I'm going to have a strict line from now on. I guess I should figure out some sort of punishment from these unintentional sleeps. The second nap itself was perfect, 20 minutes of REM.

Nap 3
Phase rating: 3

I was still tired during this phase and I fell asleep a few minutes early for my nap. Also I woke up late, my alarm had been on for a while.

Nap 4
Phase rating: 4

Yeah I finally started feeling alright during this phase. Nap was okay.

Total sleep 4h 40 min
REM 1h 40 min
Deep 1h 00 min
Day rating: 2.6

Pretty bad day - I slept slightly too much because of the oversleeps and felt bad all day. Most of it was watching football, though. Being passive just doesn't fit with tiredness, it just adds to it. If I'd played the whole day or written stuff etc. I would've been alright. I won't be watching football for over a week now (expect for tomorrow evening), so that shouldn't be a problem anymore. After that I'll simply get up and watch while standing if I start to feel sleepy.

Day 24

Core

I won't be bother with the ratings for today as I really overslept for the first time in 24 days. I strung 23 days with under 5 hours of sleep a day in a row before oversleeping with today's core. 6 hours was my total today and I will be doing my naps normally as well, I mean I missed one of them already but I'll do the rest like nothing happened.

It's a real click in the teeth. I didn't feel like I was adapting but I think this was unnecessary. I simply went back to bed for some reason when the alarms went off. Another disciplinary thing ruining everything. I don't know what to do with that but simply decide, that I WILL NOT GO BACK TO BED UNTIL CLOSE TO NEXT NAP. I won't even take a blanket with me when I go sit at computer if I'm cold. I'm just going to endure it. But yeah, I could deal with oversleeping if it were not so god damn long. Losing that under 5 hour streak sucks. But now it's time to start a brand new streak, without mistakes for the next 60 days! (In my dreams).

The fact is, that the history will continue to repeat itself unless I change something. I need to:
- Recognize when I'm tired and act accordingly - no slow activities then.
- Like I said, get up and stay up. No compromising. I need to just figure out a good punishment for myself for not adhering it. That said, I don't fully like just springing up the instant my alarm goes off, because that kills my recall, but I guess I don't have a choice until I adapt.
- Take my tiredness seriously - I have had slight attitude problem toward the tiredness Everyman causes. It has never gotten anywhere near as unendurable as Uberman got, therefore I'm being a bit arrogant towards it. I might not be as heavy as with Uberman, but it still can drag me to sleep so I really should reread combating narcolepsy section of PureDoxyk's book.

Only thing I haven't come to conclusion about is the alarms. Should I space them out evenly or have them go off close to each other? If I go for decent gaps, that just going to invite me to stay in bed a little longer ("I'll lay down 'til the last alarm"- and then you sleep through it). On the other hand, alarms close to each other can cause it to be more or less one getting up to shutdown alarms. That might not be enough.

I'm going with the best of both worlds from now on - Zeo goes off first, then my computer almost instantly after it. It should create some psychological pressure to get up for Zeo before my computer wakes up the whole house. Then have my phone sound it's alarm 10-15 minutes later as a back-up. I'd like to have a fourth back-up too now when you think of it, but I guess this is fine.

Sucks that it happens now as well. I mentioned earlier that I'm attending an event and hoped I'd be adapted by then. We'll the event is 6 days away and I overslept, so... fuck.

So in the end it's just another failure but I think I had a pretty good run and I'm definitely improving in this, just shame my initial level is so horrendous that I'm going to take an effort after effort to adjust. Besides, I don't know what's my record of most successful days in a row, but it can't be even a week if you count every minor fuck-up. So that's something definitely need to break - the barrier of seven days of adherence. During the fist attempt even two days was too much for me, so I like that I suddenly got better, but I still need to improve a lot for it to really count.

My napping times are near-perfect for me, so I won't be changing them. I could make them more evened out, but I start making those tweakings only is everyhing is going perfect yet me being tired. I'm falling asleep on every nap so in a certain sense my body is in the zone for napping.

Also this is the most drastic fuck-up for my daily schedule since the beginning as it's pretty much the only spot where I had some kind of routine going on was the first phase.

I didn't really desing my rating system and such for days like these, so I won't do that today. I have a little over an hour before my next nap, so I'll try to do some stuff I was supposed to between 6-9.

Naps

I'll just cover all of the naps in this - basicly they went without problems despite the oversleep. However I was more tired than usual in the evening. But yeah, nothing special going on. I'll start off from the scratch trying to form a new streak of successful days. This time I won't be settling on seven days, I'll never oversleep again unintentionally! That's putting the bar high, but I've noticed that when the bar is high I fare the best, even if I never make it that far.

Day 23

Core
Phase rating: 3

I had easy time getting up, well relatively to other core's at least. There was strong urge to just sleep a little more, but some alarm continuously killed this need off quickly. After some time awake the tiredness crept in as usual, but I used the old ace, Trackmania Nations to repel it.

Nap 1
Phase rating: 4

You won't get much closer to genuine oversleep than this. I decided to stay in bed for few minutes after waking up, reading magazine and trusting that my computers alarm will wake me again in a few minutes if I happen to fall asleep. Well, I had not put the audio cord back in, meaning that the alarm was silent. I did fall asleep as well, but luckily I woke up in five minutes. This time I had the censor on the whole time and it confirms the data. I really need to get more disciplined, that was a close call. I wonder how those extra 5 minutes and such affect the adaptation... I guess adversely, but only slightly. The original nap was all REM, the extension was light sleep. I'm now exactly in the pace to get 4h 20 min of sleep today and REM and deep numbers look fine as well.

I felt surprisingly good for pretty much the whole phase - yesterday's high numbers getting rewarded?

Nap 2
Phase rating: 4

Solid, about 20-minute nap with some REM and also a bit deep sleep as well.

Nap 3
Phase rating: 5

Playing hockey shrugged the little tiredness that was left off. The nap was basic stuff.

Nap 4
Phase rating: 3

I sort of dozed off for some time briefly after waking up. That wasn't long time, maybe 5-10 minutes at my computer, but still, I don't know what to think. I guess it's such a short mistake that perhaps I just shouldn't care, but still, I it's these small mistakes that are stifling me at the moment.

Okay, I checked it (I was watching a video when I dozed off, so judging by the timeline I could deduce how long I was asleep) and it turned out that I was about 15 minutes asleep. Adding this to my nap it combines to half an hour of sleep, which is not that bad, but I don't know. I consider this a failure.

From now on, I want completely mistake free days. I can bear these mistakes, but I don't want to be stuck in this half-adaptation forever. I want to be extremely disciplined from now on.

Total sleep 4h 30 min
REM 1h 5 min
Deep 1h 15 min
Day rating: 3.6

The oversleep in the end meant that I slept again a bit more that what is the plan. I don't mind too much, and the numbers are decent again. I felt okay too and I hope that I can beat my record in the feel rating tomorrow.

Day 22

Core
Phase rating: 1

So again I needed all of the alarms to get up, despite falling asleep as early as 2:45. Basicly that tells me that I should aim exatly for the 3 hours. Today is slept 3h 20 mins as it streched from the other end as well. I didn't wake up until my computer's alarm went off. My initial feeling was about average, but now, a little over 30 minutes later, I'm already dead.

I don't know about that core lenght. It seems really hard to hit that sweet spot. This time I woke up after long phase of REM. 3 hours would've been just at the start of this phase, so waking up in time would have set me up for full-REM nap 1. Whether it would've felt better is a different alltogether.

Luckily my state got a bit better after I started playing TrackMania Nations. That game is sleep-deprivation god.

Nap 1
Phase rating: 3

All light sleep once again. That said, it could have been worse, considering I don't feel all that bad.

Nap 2
Phase rating: 4

For some reason Zeo didn't record anything. However, I had vivid dreams - not nightmares really, but still disturbing stuff again, so I think I got plenty of REM. I guesstimated that I had 20 minutes of REM in same-lenght nap. I felt okay, just mostly unproductive during this phase.

Nap 3
Phase rating: 3

I slept for fifteen minutes and it was an usual nap, except for the five minutes of deep sleep I got in th end of it. That made it a bit tough to get up, but I obviously managed it.

The phase was okay, but towards the end I started getting really tired., so that drops the rating. Sucks that I now have so much problems after the start that seemed so promising.

Nap 4
Phase rating: 4

Last nap was as standard as it gets - 15 minutes all light. Still, it was refreshing and I felt great for the whole time. Well, nearly the whole time, I started to get tired towards the end.

Total sleep 4h 40 min
REM 1h 05 min
Deep 1h 35 min
Day rating: 3.2

Okay so I really slept long today. 20 minutes over what the schedule is supposed to say. I don't mind too much, but I can't help but to wonder how it's going to affect my adaptation. I'll be trying to keep my naps closer to 20 minutes and especially the core, I try to avoid it streching too much. 2:45 should be the absolute earliest I head to bed and even that when I'm not feeling tired and think I need some time to fall asleep.

With those numbers though I'd expect to feel a little better tomorrow. We'll see.

Day 21

Core
Phase rating: 1

I got into the action right after waking up, but I'm feeling really, really tired. Compared to the other cores this was somewhat average, but with a slightly below average amount of deep sleep, only an hour. But yeah, had I not kept myself doing stuff I might as well fallen asleep in this spot. Or hell, I was doing stuff yet nearly struggled to fall asleep. Luckily this is a short phase.


Nap 1
Phase rating: 3

I had surprising trouble getting asleep considering how dead I was. My total sleep here was cut to 15 minutes and I didn't even get 10 minutes of REM, gotta be a little dissapointed. My head hurted a bit after waking up, but it was short-lived. As the phase went on I got more refreshed. It's borderline though between 2 and 3. So overall shorter than usual nap still managed to refresh me a bit.

Nap 2
Phase rating:

I dont know about this one. I got up an hour after the first moment of sleep. I guess the questioning by the authorities was sliced up to multiple parts for both of us. I know that I at .least had a dream about it. But yeah, I don't know what I should think about it. I guess it still counts as a success, at least my bed and waketimes seem close enough. The phase itself felt as usual - great, with pretty much no trace of sleepyness.

Nap 3
Phase rating: 5

Ordinary, 15 minutes of light sleep nap for the evening. I noticed that my body creates a lot of heat during this nap. Again, no trouble staying awake for the whole time.

Nap 4
Phase rating: 4

Another 10 minutes without REM. But still the most important thing mantains true that I am getting the sleep here. I'm nailing the evening, just need to make the mornings work. Only slight moments of fatigue at times, solid stuff.

Total sleep 4h 15 min
REM 40 min
Deep 1h
Day rating: 3.6

To be honest I can't be perfectly happy about this day with the low numbers and a lot of tiredness compared to relatively big total sleep. I'm still a long way from adapting.

Day Twenty

Core
Sleeptime: 2:50-6:00
REM: 35 min
Deep: 55 min

Well I almost equalled yesterdays REM with simply the core today. Expecting more REM from the naps as well. Yesterday we got crazy amounts of deep from the core, today we're having to settle for a little less.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

A solid nap. I woke up in the middle of it though, but only very briefly.

Okay now it's the end of this wake-phase and I'm really dead. Lucky that it's so close to sleeping time.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:40-12:00
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

A tough nap both before and after due to tiredness but at least nothing special happened in the end.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:05-17:25
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

It started with a short bit of REM, then proceeded back to light sleep. Pretty standard stuff.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:30-22:45
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I was a bit late, but I hope that won't affect too much. I simply again lost the concept of time a bit, luckily I noticed it early enough. Nap in itself was pretty standard, but I struggled a bit to get up from it.

Total sleep 4h 30 min
REM: 75 min
Deep: 55 min

A slightly long core and no naps that fell short meant that my total sleep was in it's highest since day 12, if you don't count the oversleeping days. In terms of REM and deep sleep it was nothing special. Decentish. I felt still very tired at times today.

From this moment on I feel like I need to start quantifying a bit my progress with the adaptation. I don't introduce the old system with Mental & Tiredness number, instead I'll rate every phase with a simple 1-5 feel number.
5 = I feel normal and there was no tiredness during this phase.
4 = I don't feel outright tired, but I'm not at my freshest either.
3 = There was some moments of slight tiredness.
2 = Multiple moments of fatigue and very little productivity.
1 = I felt extremely tired and started nodding or the whole phase was slight struggle with tiredness.

With these, I aim to do average daily feeling number and average for each phase to give me some useful data to more easily compare and contrast the different days. It should start to get easier every day, but it's a slow and very subtle process, that these numbers hopefully help me to assess.

I'll also move to using spreadsheet for my data, so I don't really know how I'm going to distribute the data in the blog from now on. I guess I'll post the key stats and key feelings during the day, but it's gonna be much more condensed as I don't feel like typing all the data twice. Up until now I've just directly recorded data in this written form.

I guess it's gonna seem like this:
Example Nap
Phase rating: 4

I slept as usual and felt fine blahblahblah...

Example Nap 2
Phase Rating: 1

This nap sucked, I only slept 5 minutes and it was blah. Then I felt like death blah.

Well I guess that's not much more condensed at all. I wish my average descriptions were as vivid as in examples. I'll still keep track of the waking times, total sleeps and such and will be posting daily totals as usual, but I just don't think anyone cares about them and I'm aiming to concentrate more on verbal descriptions. I mean if I'm going to say anyway, that "I was a bit late for the nap", then why bother with the exact times? Usually I explain my mistakes anyway in the text so if something out of ordinary happens, it is going to show up there anyway.

Day Nineteen

Core
Sleeptime 2:55-6:10
REM: 20 min
Deep: 110 min

Superb amount of deep! More than I get from monophasic! Nice. Lenghty core as well, but still it saw me stay asleep 10 minutes into my alarm. Great base numbers could mean a record for useful sleep for today. That said, I feel slightly tired. It's nothing really compared to what I've been feeling lately, but there's still the certain tiredness.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

A solid nap in numbers and also in terms of getting instantly up. Nothing really to say, I just hope that this keeps up. That said, I have still gotten tired towards the end of the phase.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:00
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

Keeping up the good work.

Nap 3
Sleeptime 17:15-17:20
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Well this was weird. I go to sleep and am set for sleeping until 17:30, but I wake up after only five minutes, as refreshed as ever.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:10-22:30
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

All-light sleep nap to end the day. I struggled to get up as I stayed in the bed until about 22:45. I didn't sleep though, but it did make me feel kind of bad. I was definitely risking it (there was alarm though yet to go off, so I would've slept few minutes max).

Total sleep 4h 10 min
REM: 40 min
Deep: 110 min

Another pretty good day and third successful day in a row. I don't really have anything to add to that.

Day Eighteen

Core
Sleeptime 3:10-6:05
REM: 25 min
Deep: 80 min

Umm, it was pretty normal I guess. A bit groggy upon waking up but that's all. The alarm rang for a couple of minutes maybe before I got up.

Nap 1
Sleeptime 8:10-8:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

Thank lord for the full-REM nap. Frankly it didn't help much, as I really didn't want to get up the bed after waking up and now, over a hour later I'm really, really tired. This has been a tough morning.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

That ought to ease it. For once I woke up a bit before the alarm as well. I stayed in the bed though until the alarm, because I still am damn tired when I wake up. This is still pretty hard - well, I guess it would've been too easy if I'd just have adapted like that. Hopefully I'll feel better in two weeks. Lately the tiredness has concentrated on these earlier phases, so if things continue as they were in last couple of days, I should feel better by evening.

Nap 3
Sleeptime 17:15-17:40
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

Wow, REM again? If my memory serves me right, and I won't bother to look into it, this would be the first time of REM in every nap if I get REM in the fourth nap. I'm still a bit tired, but it has gotten better as expected. Getting up from this nap was very hard though - my alarm was nicely randomly set to 17.33 so I slept 7 minutes while alarm was on.

Nap 4
Sleeptime 22:05-22:15
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Again a bit of REM. My nap was cut short to waking up and just not falling back asleep. I didn't even try after rolling around for 4 minutes and being completely refreshed. Kind of nice.

Total sleep 4h 15min
REM: 65 min
Deep: 80 min

Very solid numbers. I hope my tiredness lessens for tomorrow due to this.

Day Seventeen

Core
Sleeptime: 3:00-6:00
REM: 15 min
Deep: 85 min

I slept just the time I was supposed to, yet I feel like I failed. I woke up a couple of times during the core - the second time I woke up around 5.30 but didn't get up. Or I don't know, something like that. By 6:00 I was up however so it doesn't really matter, for some reason though I feel a little dirty. The numbers are fine. I'm feeling reasonable, not great but I'll manage. For the first time in a while I feel like failing is possible again though. Maybe once I get a couple of successful days in a row I'll start feeling more confident...

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:15-8:30
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

Consistency of earlier days is completely gone. A bit of REM here and I though I slept more, but whatever. I'm much more tired than few days ago as well. That oversleep yesterday taking it's toll or rather normal adaptation?

Waking up from the core there was this certain disorientation that I felt during Uberman as well. So I don't know, maybe for me the toughest spot is here right now? Also I haven't put that many days in a row without oversleeps, so my guess it's there's still overall slight sleep deficit accumulating. Those last two naps have no REM nor deep sleep after all usually. I should just concentrate on keeping a consistent schedule at this point.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:40-12:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I'm tired again. I'd just wish for more REM. This might be a tough day.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:20-17:40
REM: 5 min
Deep: 5 min

Well at least there was something. What I'm happy with is that there was maximum amount of distractions for falling asleep, yet I managed it fairly quickly. I was a bit late, had just come from playing hockey, there was tv on, I was sweaty, etc. etc. I nap solidly, that's all. This phase has felt pretty good also.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:35-22:40
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

At least I fell asleep - not a great nap. It was a bit late as well. That said, I tried to expand on it by giving myself another 10 minutes, but couldn't fell asleep again, so it did refresh me. Overall I feel a lot better than during the day. Perhaps it was just the occasional fatigue that will still happen, especially since I've had a few oversleeps.

Total sleep 4h
REM: 35 min
Deep: 90 min

Solid deep, but REM sucks. I wonder why I am not getting the regular REM in the noon naps anymore?

Day Sixteen

Core

Sleeptime: 3:00-5:30, 5:50-7:30

Yeah, I won't bother with the numbers because of the oversleep. I was supertired as usual waking up from my core so I wasn't thinking straight. I tried to stay up, but my thoughts got the better of me and for some reason, I didn't even have any alarms on. Luckily I don't sleep for long anymore. Timewise I couldn'¨t care less about this, but it's frustrating to have your streak ruined and possibly take a small setback.

Perhaps it's still too early to go proclaiming yourself success... I need to figure out a plan for those supertired waking ups. That said, it's one thing to have a plan and a whole other thing to actually implement it while being braindead.

I'm going to stay up for the 7:30-8:00 break and then go to my first nap as usual. I guess it's lucky that I didn't oversleep so much that I'd lose the first nap. I have to keep mantaining the usual schedule. However, I guess I'll be trying a WILD really hard, so hard that it could stifle my attempt to fall asleep. It shouldn't matter with the oversleep.

Finally it should be mentioned that my core was shorter than usual because SmartWake woke me up early. Timewise I've only slept maximum of 1½ hours of extra. I don't know how accurate that estimation I have of the time I went back to sleep is, probably optimistic in a sense that I didn't really stay up that long. Still this ought to set me back a bit. It just goes to prove that Everyman adaptation is a long process.

I have an event coming up soon and I'd really need to be as adapted as possible before that. Because of that, I absolutely can't allow any more oversleep for the next two weeks. I have to work that into my brain.

I guess one way could be leaving MW2 just on and instantly after alarm goes off no thoughts, just instantly up and at your computer and throw yourself into the match. Just have this routine that you automatically do this to ease up the first half an hour or so. Once you're up it's easy to stay up, especially since getting your ass handed to you in MW should stimulate your brains.

I'd end up playing a lot of MW2 but I need the practice in that anyway! So it's a win-win situation...

Nap 1
Sleeptime 8:30-8:40
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I ended up having a bit longer break than I wrote earlier, but it didn't change the fact that I hardly got to sleep. Which is fine considering the earlier oversleep.

Nap 2
No data

I slept for 25 minutes at the normal time. Zeo didn't record the data for some reason - or it just dissapeared from the screen as I put the headband docked on it.

Nap 3
Sleeptime 17:05-17:20
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Relatively refreshing nap here. A bit on the shorter side though.

I've been thinking about the SmartWake lately and I have to say that it really isn't as useful as I hoped for. Today morning was one of the rare instances it woke me and I definitely wasn't ready for waking then. That said, I'm not completely giving up on it. I'm just shortening the timescale it can wake me up so it wakes me up max 20 minutes early. I'll be heading to sleep 2:30-2:45 as well, as I usually take some time to fall asleep for my core. But there's still the fourth nap of today to take care of first.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:10-22:25
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Zeo again cut some data off as I woke up just before the alarm and quickly set it ready for the core - therefore shifting the time display. So that I slept for 15 minutes is just guessing. I was a long time in a different state of mind, but awake. It's cool as the room was full of distractions, yet I managed to drift off.

No total data for the day as there was too much unrecorded data.

Day Fifteen

Core
Sleeptime: 3:10-6:00
REM: 35 min
Deep: 85 min

An okay core - I was a bit groggy upon waking up, but for the most of the phase I felt fine.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:00-8:30
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

I forgot the Smartwake for this nap so it decided to wake me up after 10 minutes, but it was a very quick wake up. Not very restful either as it left me very tired. Luckily this is one of the shorter phases awake.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:00
REM: 25 min
Deep: 0 min

Okay, nice to have a "perfect" nap for a change, but I'm still tired as hell and the urge to go straight back to bed is quite big. I guess I'll have these for a while, PureDoxyk talked about 60-day period with Everyman and considering I've done couple of oversleeps it'll be closer to 70 days.

I'm not expecting a very producitve day - so far it's been pretty average in that department.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 16:55-17:20
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Guess I'll have to be happy with that. Much-needed nap - I was really tired in the end of previous phase!

Nap 4
Sleeptime 22:15-22:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Again a bit of REM, I guess that's good.

Total sleep 4h 25min
REM: 80 min
Deep: 85 min

After two worse days, this day improved upon the numbers and I'd expect not to be as tired tomorrow. I guess those two weaker days caused the tiredness.

I wonder how long I should keep this blog with this format. Sixth day in a row without oversleeps. I guess when I hit 15 I'm done and then I'll keep wider distance between updates. Nobody does that much with this data anymore.

Day Fourteen

Core
Sleeptime: 3:25-6:00
REM: 0 min
Deep: 95 min

Well, those are bizarre numbers. It was a little short core though, so maybe it's not so surprising. I struggled a bit in falling asleep for some reason.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:10-8:30
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

Nothing special here. A bit short and I normally get more REM with this, but whatever.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:45 & 11:50-12:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I woke up midnap, that probably disrupted getting REM here.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:05-17:20
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

I shortened this nap as you can see, as I planned. No REM either, despite the first two naps sort of sucking. I guess I just aren't going to have REM here.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:10-22:25
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Total sleep 3h 45 min
REM: 20 min
Deep: 95 min

Second day in a row with quite low amounts of sleep and I've felt very tired today, especially towards the afternoon. That said even the noon wasn't the freshest. Good core tonight and solid first two naps tomorrow morning should clear me up nicely. In terms of not oversleeping the streak is now streched to five days.

Day Thirteen

Day Thirteen
Sleeptime: 3:05-6:00
REM: 25 min
Deep: 90 min

Damn I got much deep sleep again. For once I got to bed early, 2:20, but just coulnd't fall asleep until that 3 o'clock. At least this time I woke up somewhat naturally without needing Immortal's blasting drums to shake me up.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 7:20-7:25
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

Well that's surprising. I fell asleep for a moment and then was simply so refreshed for some reason that I couldn't fall asleep again for the last minutes of naptime. First time in a while that this nap "fails" I suspect that some other nap will take it's place and I'll still rack up 2 naps worth of REM.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 12:10-12:25
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

I've waken up naturally from both of my naps now. How 'naturally' is debatable though, as in both times I've zapped awake after getting some kind of awareness of the fact that I had already woked up once and therewore were oversleeping, when that wasn't the case. Weird day so far overall, but I'm happy that I don't have problems waking up.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:15-17:30
REM: 0 min
Deep: 5 min

Nap 4
Sleeptime: Missed nap
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

I experienced a switch of state, but didn't fall asleep, not at least according to Zeo. As I still felt rested after it, I consider this still a success. Even if it were a failure, missing a nap is lot milder offence than oversleeping.

I just figured out something. If those two later naps are so ineffective anyway, why waste so much time on them? I should just reserve 20 minutes time on each. I know I'm supposed to reserve that much time for every nap, but in reality I need a bit time to fall asleep. If I'm not going to fall asleep anyway in those naps or only catch five minutes of REM, I can do it in 20 minutes as well. I need to test this shit out. After all, I have four naps instead of the usual three, so it just might work. At the moment I'm pretty much taking 3h 20 min + 30 min + 30 min + 35 min + 35 min of time for my naps which equals to about 5h 10 mins. I could trim it down plenty by being more timely. Something like 3h 10 min + 25 min + 25 min + 20 min + 20 min = 4h 40 min. Well it's not that big of a victory, but even half an hour a day is 3½ hours in a week.

I'm not fully adapted yet, but at this moment there's no significant chance of failure anymore. I would call this a success already. Now it's only about optimization.

Total sleep 3h 30 min
REM: 40 min
Deep: 95 min

Decent numbers. Decent feel as well. I could've probably done with more REM, but I can deal with that.